Posted by: kurtsh | February 6, 2006

FIX: “Acquiring IP address…” message on WinXP SP2

Do you have a network icon in your System Tray?  Have you ever seen a bunch of "dots" going blip blip blip in this network icon with this message appearing when you hover your mouse over it?
"Acquiring network IP address…"
It’s annoying as hell.  Most of the time, you do have an IP address allocated to your workstation and you can verify this by doing an IPCONFIG.EXE but the system doesn’t seem to recognize this.
 
I believe this is the fix for this problem.  It’s a well known issue and I’m not sure why this hasn’t been communicated better but the fix is a downloadable patch that doesn’t appear as either a critical patch or a recommended patch.  Strangely, it’s a completely UNLISTED patch.
 
 

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